VASSEY v. BURCH

No. 8229SC750.

306 S.E.2d 842 (1983)

Benny G. VASSEY v. William H. BURCH, M.D.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

September 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hamrick & Hamrick by J. Nat Hamrick, Rutherfordton, for plaintiff-appellant.

Harrell & Leake by Larry Leake, Asheville, for defendant-appellee.


PHILLIPS, Judge.

Crucial to plaintiff's case was expert medical testimony that the defendant's failure to diagnose and treat the appendicitis caused the troublesome and expensive complications that followed. If the abdominal infection was already underway when the plaintiff consulted defendant—or if it resulted from a laceration of the bowel that occurred during surgery, a possibility raised by the hospital records—defendant would not be liable. Dr....

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